Moderate Quotes

I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

Within 90 days from the time Lincoln that is inaugurated, the Republican Party will be utterly ruined and destroyed. His path is environed with so many difficulties, that even if he had the ability of Jefferson and the energy of Jackson, he would fail, but he is a weak and inexperienced man, and his administration will be doomed from the commencement. If he takes that radical section of the Republican Party, the conservative wing of it will cut loose and repudiate him. If, on the other hand, he courts the conservatives and pursues a moderate conciliatory policy, the radicals will make open war upon his administration.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.

I don't know that I'm as conservative as portrayed.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

There are two things you find in the middle of the road—a moderate and a dead skunk.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

What you have to be concerned about are the extremists. On the whole, we need to understand the more moderate Muslims before they become more radicalized.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt.'